Molten Armor now causes 170 Fire damage when hit for all ranks (Up from 75/130/170) and also increases your critical strike rating by 25% of your spirit.

Glyph of Molten Armor — Your Molten Armor grants an additional 15% of your spirit as critical strike rating. (Old – Your Molten Armor spell grants an additional 2% critical strike chance.)

mage casts molten armor

So while mages finally have use for some of that spirit that comes with their gear, it’s probably not the kind of change they wanted. The most obviously affected are those people who don’t really stack spirit since their crit chance will go down when using Molten Armor compared to what it currently is in live. This includes those people who do a lot of PvP since PvP gear doesn’t have a lot of spirirt and crit is pretty important in PvP. In PvE, it seems like this is also a problem since mages will be forced to stack a lot of spirit just to match the crit they currently have.

I think this would have been a nice idea if spirit just added to the existing 3% crit chance molten armor gives, not replace it. After all the idea was just supposed to give a bonus for having the spirit and not to force mages to stack it.

Post from: WOW Obsessed